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Monday, February 27, 2012

What's On My Nightstand - February

It feels like it has been MUCH longer than one month since the last Nightstand meme at 5 Minutes for Books. Much, much longer! Having been smoked out of our house the past month, I guess that sort of explains it. All of my reading goals for the year have been shot right from the get-go but I'm still reading. I'm just not reading exactly what I planned on or had hoped to read.

2. The Mysterious Benedict Society. (Linked to my thoughts.) This was a much anticipated re-read for me and I'm super glad to have had the opportunity to revisit this one.

3. Gleanings in Genesis. Didn't happen. This book has been "book napped" by the cleaners and I likely won't be seeing this one again soon.

4. The Problem of Pain, by C. S. Lewis. I did read this one and took a bunch of notes from the read. My notes have been packed away and so I won't be able to review that one until I get them back. That is probably just as well as I'm still thinking about what I think about C.S. Lewis after reading this particular book!

As for my goals for the month of March? Well, I plan on reading whatever books I can get my hands on, essentially. Since my books are all packed away at the moment, I've accepted more books for review, which you might have noticed. I had intended to review fewer books this year but right now I'm just looking for fun and interesting things to read and think about while we wait to get back into our house. I've grabbed a few titles from the library and also have a nice little stack of review copies to get to which include:

Lastly, just a note to say that I picked up a copy of The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic from the library since my copy is packed away. (I bought it on high recommendations.) And not to say that I'll not trust the sources again (wink and laugh!) but I didn't care for it at all. I got about halfway through before I simply had to stop. I don't know if I did't like it because I had a raging headache when I tried reading it or if I got the headache from reading it. I simply thought the author tried too hard to be witty and clever and therefore it came across as juvenile to me in the worst sort of way. At any rate, I'm going to pass that one on by unless someone convinces me thoroughly to give it another go.

That, my friends, is the state of my portable Nightstand this month. What's on yours?!

15 comments:

It sounds like you've had a good reading month in spite of everything. You have some great reads coming up! I can't wait to dive into Pilgrim's Progress. I've read maybe the first 1/4 of it but that was years ago. I'm glad we get to tackle this classic!

Do they have an estimate for how long it will be til you get back home? Will they have to paint and such or do they think just cleaning will get it all out? Hope you're not "displaced" too much longer.

I should probably delve into Pilgrim's Progress -- it's been years since I read it but it still seems pretty familiar to me. But I am sure there are parts I forgot and parts I'd be blessed by rereading.

Maybe this would be a good month to check out the Benedict Society, too.

I'm interested in reading your reviews of Nature Deficit and Stasiland. Since I generally like Gene Edward Veith, I am curious if that book is any good. I have an innate skepticism of books containing any variation of "God's Way", but I don't recall Veith tending to confuse his opinion with Biblical truth the way far too many do. (And you know what reviews I am referring to ;))

You definitely should not give *The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic* another chance, because now I can just blame it on the headache and we can still be friends. If you tried it in better circumstances and still didn't like it . . . ;-)